News & Events
03/11/2012 - Participants at the closing session of the seventh African Economic Conference, on November 2, 2012 in Kigali, Rwanda, urged African leaders to put in place bold economic reforms, aimed at sustaining growth and boosting human development.
Categories: Rwanda, Economic & Financial Governance
02/11/2012 - The time has come for African governments to assess the financial repercussions of capital flight on the continent. This was the view, on Thursday evening, of Ameth Saloum Ndiaye, researcher in economics at the University of Dakar, in Senegal.
Categories: Rwanda, Economic & Financial Governance, Human and Social Development
02/11/2012 - African governments should use the proceeds from land leased to foreign investors to subsidize the cost to local farmers of modernizing their farming methods, or to build infrastructure and improve production.
Categories: Rwanda, Infrastructure, Economic & Financial Governance, Agriculture & Agro-industries
02/11/2012 - “Africa can have a brighter future, and has the potential to become the next emerging market by the end of this decade… Also, the continent’s long-term growth prospects are strong, propelled by both external trends in the global economy and internal changes in the continent’s societies and economies.”
Categories: Rwanda, Economic & Financial Governance, Human and Social Development, Youth
02/11/2012 - Economists studying the role of household enterprises in economic growth are advising governments to discontinue ignoring the sector in their development strategies.
Categories: Rwanda, Economic & Financial Governance, Youth, Human and Social Development
02/11/2012 - Leaders who pursue exclusionary policies have themselves to blame for their countries’ stagnation and may, after all, be stoking fires that eventually consume them, economists studying the political economy of social inclusion have warned.
Categories: Rwanda, Economic & Financial Governance
02/11/2012 - The African continent must face many serious challenges in order to achieve successful regional integration and benefit from the advantages that result. This was the recommendation of a panel of expert economists speaking on Day 3 of the seventh African Economic Conference on Thursday in Kigali, Rwanda.
Categories: Rwanda, Economic & Financial Governance
01/11/2012 - Fragile countries require more financial support to stand a chance of improving their fortunes, Shantayanan Devarajan, the World Bank’s Chief Economist for the Africa Region, said Thursday at the ongoing African Economic Conference in Kigali, Rwanda.
Categories: Rwanda, Economic & Financial Governance
01/11/2012 - African leaders in the ongoing African Economic Conference are requested to invest selectively in policies that interest citizens in order to improve agriculture productivity. During a session titled “Agriculture, Markets and Development”, Melanie O’Gorman from the University of Winnipeg in Canada presented a paper arguing that despite the widespread diffusion of productivity-enhancing agricultural technologies theworld over, agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa has typically stagnated.
Categories: Rwanda, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Infrastructure
01/11/2012 - Key challenges and opportunities for effective expansion of trade for inclusive development were discussed in depth in a plenary session of the seventh African Economic Conference on Thursday, November 1 in Kigali, Rwanda.
Categories: Rwanda, Economic & Financial Governance, Human and Social Development
